OBJECTIVE Understanding the impediments that prevented sexually abused adolescents from disclosure to their family or to professionals, and analyzing the responses they received when they did disclose. METHODS In depth anonymous interviews were conducted in Italy through a toll-free telephone line with 36 young people who experienced sexual abuse in adolescence. A qualitative analysis was car...

This essay advocates the role of forgiveness within the criminal justice system, particularly from a prosecutor’s perspective, and discusses common impediments to its increased presence and the leadership needed to allow it to develop within the system.

Introduction. This study explores the extent to which an institutional repository makes papers available and accessible on the open Web by using 170 journal articles housed in DigiNole Commons, the institutional repository at Florida State University. Method. To analyse the repository's impact on availability and accessibility, we conducted independent known­item title searches on both Google a...

This paper reports the results of a study carried out to assess the benefits, impediments and major critical success factors in adopting business to consumer e-business solutions. A case study method of investigation was used, and the experiences of six online companies and two bricks and mortar companies were documented. The major impediments identified are: leadership issues, operational issu...

This study’s goal is to investigate impediments to successful enterprise system (ES) implementation across the system lifecycle. Drawing from the opinions of 82 ES practitioners and building on the authors’ previous work on source problems in ES adoption, this study performs the further data analysis incorporating the ES lifecycle. The analysis employs the Cooper and Zmud’s six-stage model of I...

This article reports on the use of experimental economics to guide design of an on-ground trial of a recharge cap and trade scheme that will be implemented in 2005. The policy design process involved identifying potential impediments to functioning of a credit trade policy which could prevent cost-effective and environmentally effective outcomes. Experimental economics was used to test efficacy...

Customer integration is an integral element of the innovation process today. Yet, despite the potential for integrating external knowledge into new product development (NPD) processes, companies often fail to benefit sufficiently from customer integration. Research attributes this failure to restricted absorptive capacity, intellectual property concerns, or the ''not-invented-here'' syndrome bu...